The Little Wartime Library: A gripping, heart-wrenching WW2 page-turner based on real events by Kate Thompson
22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a ca ...Show more
The Girl in the Green Dress by Jeni Haynes, George Blair-West
34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'I didn't know that you're only supposed to have one personality. I didn't realise that having lots of voices in your head was abnormal. But you are protecting yourself. You are protecting your soul, and that's what I did.'An intelligent, poised woman, Jeni Haynes sat in court and listened as the man wh ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A mesmerising retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Perfect for fans of CIRCE, A SONG OF ACHILLES, and THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS.'Here, Ariadne takes centre stage in a lyrical, insightful re-telling that explores her motivations and emotions and the grievances caused by grumpy, ...Show more
The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
24.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The bestseller from the author of the upcoming new novel The Year of the Farmer. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET AND LIAM HEMSWORTHTilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
34.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
The Spy's Wife by Fiona McIntosh
32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
The highly anticipated new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Champagne War. Evie, a widow and stationmaster's daughter, helplessly looks out for the weekly visit of the handsome man she and her sister call The Southerner on their train platform in the wilds of northern England. Whe ...Show more
All the Ways We Said Goodbye - A Novel of the Ritz Paris by Beatriz Williams; Lauren Willig; Karen White
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris' legendary Ritz hotel.The heires ...Show more
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgerton #5) by Julia Quinn
19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Bridgertons Ser.
Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long en ...Show more
The Gates of Athens (#1 Athenian) by Conn Iggulden
22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Athenian
The bestselling author of The Falcon of Sparta returns to the Ancient World with an epic exploration of power 490 B.C. Two great empires are about to go to war . . . The momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems will last for twenty-seven years (431 to 404 BC). I ...Show more
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss
22.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
'The novel flows like the great Murrumbidgee River itself, with powerful undercurrents that sweep the reader along - I feel it's a book that all Australians should read, to try and understand why our colonial past still causes so much pain and grievance.’ – Kate Forsyth